PHEW. That was quite a Christmas. Ill mothers, shops that are so full of stuff you can’t get into them, Dad’s without blogs, blogs without Dads. Well that’s not quite right but you may have gathered by now that the ‘Bridge the Gap’ project is almost complete. Well, that is, the shop is now accessible, the blog is being posted on, the twitter feed is getting more followers by the day, and the warming pans have started to arrive. The sign, by the lovely lads at Strawberry Militia is in the process of being made, here’s how it looks so far:

So, before we give you the final pictures and leave Dad with a manual on how ‘how to blog, tweet and do all tings social media’, something needs rectifying. The initial post on this project was, in retrospect, subject to a little artistic license. It very much seemed as if the sole cause, reason and rhyme for this project taking place was down to a sighting of an elderly gentleman on the tube. Whereas this is by no means untrue, I think it’s fair to say that it was a catalyst, and actually a conversation my favourite man in the universe, was the fuel that kept the fire sustainable and gave it weight. Check him out here, he’s radical. Oh and, if your friends with either of us on facespace check out his latest drawing Marathon, crowdsourcing at it’s very best (and most beautiful)